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Month: May 2011

Playing the Hand You’ve Been Dealt

Playing the Hand You’ve Been Dealt

How awesome is the LORD Most High… He chose our inheritance for us. Psalm 47:2 & 4 . In Carl Sandburg’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography, Abe Lincoln Grows Up, he tells the story of a young Abe Lincoln growing up in a humble cabin in Pigeon Creek, Indiana (pictured above). Although Abe’s father was originally a prosperous and wealthy landowner, through a series of financial reversals, the family found themselves starting over in rural south Indiana. By the time Abe…

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Disappointing Azleas and other musings…

Disappointing Azleas and other musings…

My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6 “You don’t know what you don’t know.” So said Pastor John to me a couple of weeks ago. It wasn’t said in a mean or condescending way. I don’t even remember the situation. As a matter of fact, I don’t think he directed the comment to me, but it’s stuck. John has a way of slipping witty little proverbs into conversation every now and then. Have you ever noticed that?…

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